The Quickie: Bans Off Our Bodies at NYFW

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In today’s Quickie: Bans Off Our Bodies at NYFW and the House majority returns to DC.

BANS OFF OUR BODIES AT NYFW: To raise awareness on the attacks on reproductive freedom, fashion brand AREA partnered with Tinder to collaborate on an exclusive “Bans Off Our Bodies” t-shirt that launched at AREA’s New York Fashion Week show on Friday, and was part of the runway collection. AREA also invited Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) patient storytellers to sit in the front row and share why they advocate for abortion rights. Tinder also made a $25,000 donation to PPFA.

“Our reproductive freedom is under a constant state of attack, with devastating consequences for millions of Americans,” says Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “That’s why together we must say: Bans Off Our Bodies. We thank AREA and Tinder for their efforts to raise awareness around this critical issue.”

Teen Vogue talked to patient storytellers about how they were denied access to care and why they advocate for reproductive rights. Nancy Davis, a patient storyteller from Louisiana, shared her story: 

“When I was put in this very distressing situation, Planned Parenthood was almost like a no-brainer,” Davis said, who was denied care by her doctor due to Louisiana's abortion bans that were in place. “That pretty much forced us to leave our family and our kids behind and travel 1,500 miles away to Planned Parenthood in New York to access the abortion care that I should have received at home.

Read the story from Teen Vogue here, additional coverage from Diet Prada here, and more on the collaboration here.

THEY’RE BACK — HOUSE MAJORITY RETURNS TO DC (WITH THEIR ANTI-ABORTION AGENDA): It’s back-to-school day in Congress, folks. Legislators have until the end of the month to agree on a short-term funding deal and avert a government shutdown — and the House majority is spending its first week back pushing a divisive bill that includes a poison pill voting restriction and is expected to be a non-starter in the Senate. 

When House GOP leaders threw in the towel in July and abandoned plans to vote on their remaining annual funding bills, they may have hoped that by taking an extra-long summer break the American people would forget about their extreme anti-abortion agenda. But no such luck. We still have the receipts. 

Here are just some of the deeply unpopular attacks on reproductive freedom the House Majority packed into their bills this year: 

• Eliminating funding for both the Title X family planning program and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, while funding abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. 
• Overturning a District of Columbia law protecting employees from being fired for their personal reproductive health care decisions. 
• “Defunding” Planned Parenthood, blocking people who rely on public health programs from accessing critical preventive services at Planned Parenthood health centers.

The list goes on and on (and on) so make sure to read our full recap here. While these individual bills may be on hold as the fight over a temporary spending deal unfolds in the coming weeks, we’ll remember that the House GOP is not done pushing egregious and desperate ways to strip us of our access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

Read more here.